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who participate in this kind of sport good judges of 

 the qualifications, powers and merits of the horse 

 for such purposes, and by constant buying and selling 

 such horses, it makes them judges of their relative 

 value. Long may such men live to enjoy the amuse- 

 ment which their ample fortunes render possible. There 

 are without doubt pursuits of a higher order, pursuits 

 that produce more beneficial results to mankind in 

 general, but every man of fortune has an undoubted 

 right to spend that fortune in such pursuits as he 

 conceives affords him the most gratification, and pro- 

 vided that the pursuit be a harmless one, no one has a 

 right to interfere with it. The pursuits of the sports- 

 man while carried on by tlie gentleman, are generally 

 not only harmless, but beneficial to others, they give 

 employment to many and occasion a great deal of 

 money to be expended. 



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